World IN BRIEF : ARGENTINA : 2nd Officer Admits to ‘Death Flights’

A second former military man has admitted taking part in “death flights” in which political prisoners were thrown alive into the Atlantic Ocean in the 1970s. The former military regime held at least 2,000 prisoners at Campo de Mayo army base in Buenos Aires during the “dirty war,” and many were thrown into the ocean after interrogation, said former army Sgt. Victor Ibanez in an interview published in the newspaper La Prensa. Two months ago, retired navy Capt. Adolfo Scilingo broke two decades of armed forces silence by saying that prisoners were stripped, drugged and thrown into the Atlantic from navy aircraft between 1976 and 1978.